Orode O. Doherty Founder, Executive Director
Dr. Orode O. Doherty is a US Board-Certified Paediatrician and Public Health Physician, and Medical Director of Ingress Health Partners where she focuses on providing care to families in high density urban neighbourhoods. Here she is working on expanding integrated comprehensive primary healthcare employing a continuity-of-care model incorporating anticipatory guidance and behaviour change at community level, integrating this with technology and expanded partnerships to optimize outcomes.
She received Pediatric training at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh where she was an award-winning Pediatric resident and clinician. As pioneer Pediatrician in ICAP, Columbia University, she led teams that established over 100 maternal and newborn care clinics for mothers living with HIV in several states in Nigeria, creating curricula for training health providers and tools for supervision. In 2010 she initiated the transformation project for the Massey Street Children’s Hospital and led the team that developed the strategic plan and road map addressing operations, financial sustainability and relevant specialist education.
Until recently she was Country Director for Africare Nigeria, where she provided thoughtful leadership around enhancing the capacity of women and their families to improving health and livelihoods through behavior change, education and enhanced access to resources and technology. She holds a Master’s in Public Health (Maternal & Child Health) from Harvard University’s School of Public Health. Her 28-year professional career has spanned clinical and academic paediatrics, health and hospitals systems strengthening, community development, establishing livelihoods and the promotion of life skills in youth.
Dr. Doherty is a regular contributor to local news and media outlets in Nigeria, and serves on various non profit boards including Lagos Mums, the Healthcare Leadership Academy and the African Cycling Foundation. She is a fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative West Africa and a fellow and moderator of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
Eme Essien Lore
Board Chair, Non Executive Director
Eme Essien Lore is an international development finance professional with over 20 years of global experience in designing and implementing private sector financing solutions in areas such as infrastructure, manufacturing and financial inclusion. Currently she serves as a Manager at the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation, where she is a member of the Africa Leadership Team and oversees the Nigeria operations, the largest single country program in the region. Her role includes strategy development and execution, business development, client relationship management and oversight of the local team and office. She also spent several years at the Rockefeller Foundation where she led successful initiatives on impact investing and youth employment. Eme has shaped her career around her belief that Africa’s private sector has a critical role to play in achieving the continent’s development aspirations. She is passionate about the impact of visionary business leadership, good corporate governance and organizational health on achieving sustainable financial and operational performance. She currently serves on the World Bank Group Diversity and Inclusion Council and is an IFC Diversity and Inclusion Advocate. Eme has a BA in Economics from Columbia University, an MA in African Studies and International Economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the Wharton School.
L. Nneka Mobisson Etuk
Board Member, Non Executive Director
Dr. L. Nneka Mobisson is co-founder and CEO of mDoc, a digital health enterprise which integrates proven methodologies in quality improvement, data and behavioral science with technology to support people in Africa to manage their chronic health needs. Prior to mDoc, Dr. Mobisson was Executive Director, Africa at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, IHI where she still serves as a faculty advisor. A pediatrician, Dr. Mobisson was Vice President of Community Health and Population Health Management at Connecticut Hospital Association. At McKinsey & Company, she worked on healthcare strategy. She has worked at World Bank, Merck, and CDC. Dr. Mobisson earned a bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, MPH from Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, MD/MBA from Yale University and completed her Pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is an Ashoka Fellow, Making More Health Fellow, Forbes Africa New Wealth Creator, Cartier Awards Finalist, a WEF Young Global Leader, and a Yale Associate World Fellow.
Omolara Thomas Uwemedimo
Board Member, Non Executive Director
Dr. Omolara Thomas Uwemedimo is a paediatrician, associate professor, researcher, social entrepreneur and maternal-child health advocate. She is CEO of Strong ChildrenWellness, an innovative telemedicine practice that addresses both unmet health and social needs for families in New York and founder of Melanin, Medicine & Motherhood, an organization focused on empowering and supporting the personal development of women physicians of colour to achieve their vision and build their capacity to support other women of colour.
Dr. Uwemedimo received her medical degree from New York University School of Medicine and pursued her paediatric training at Children’s Hospital Boston at Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Center. She completed a community health research fellowship and masters’ degree in urban public health at Columbia University.
Dr. Uwemedimo has received several community awards including NYC Mayor’s Unsung Hero Award for Outstanding Community Service and the Child Center of NY’s inaugural Innovative Leadership Award.
She is a tireless advocate and much sought after public speaker, with significant advocacy and policy expertise in maternal and child health. She serves as a media contributor to Essence.com, Newsweek, Reuters, NPR, Politico, and CNN Espanol.
She has worked with children in Kenya, India, Dominican Republic, as well as with indigenous communities and immigrant families in the US.
Ugo Aneto-Okeke
Technical Advisor
Dr. Ugo Aneto-Okeke is an experienced clinician, public health professional and health services researcher with 10+ years of clinical and public health experience. She is currently a Manager at Execution Edge, an advisory and management consulting firm with strong capabilities and experience in the development and execution of strategy, where she is responsible for leading teams involved in delivering enterprise transformation solutions to clients that cut across various facets of business, government and institutions.
Prior to this, she has held multiple roles in healthcare quality improvement including Quality Improvement Officer at PharmAccess Foundation/SafeCare where she worked to institute quality improvement in over 40 healthcare facilities spread across 4 states in Nigeria. Ugo was also Quality Improvement Advisor at Obio Cottage hospital where she pioneered the quality improvement program. At the time, Obio Cottage Hospital was the primary health care provider for the first Community-based Health Insurance Scheme in the Niger Delta which aimed at reducing and ultimately elimination out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure for indigenes of the local communities.
Her other interests are maternal newborn and child health, primary healthcare, and universal health coverage. She is motivated to apply her clinical experience, public health skills and business knowledge to strengthening health systems and improving global health.
Dr. Aneto-Okeke has an MBChB from the University of Ghana Medical School, an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is a member of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare. She is published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and writes articles for the Center for Health Market Innovations.
Dozie Okpalaobieri
Legal Advisor
Dozie Okpalaobieri is an Economist and Lawyer and a Partner at Hamilton and Associates, an Abuja-based law firm. He consults for the Energy Complex of the African Development Bank and was previously the Senior Legal Advisor for the Power Africa Transactions and Reform Program (PATRP) in Nigeria, primarily providing policy support and advise to the Government of Nigeria on energy sector issues and industry restructuring.
He has served as the Special Assistant on Energy to Nigeria’s former Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance. He also previously served as a Legal and Policy Adviser at the African Center for Economic Transformation, he advised Governments in Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Mozambique on policy and legal issues in the extractive resources sector. He previously worked as an Attorney at Vedder Price in Chicago, as a Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young in Boston and as a Research Assistant at Abt Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dozie holds a Juris Doctor from the Northwestern University School of Law, a Masters in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Northeastern University, both in Boston Massachusetts. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business at Northwestern and is a member of the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Nigerian Bar Association and the Law Society of England and Wales.